This page lists databases produced by states or their political subdivisions that provide online access to historical photographs, video, or audio. It was last reviewed for broken links on December 23, 2012.

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This resource has been discontinued. See available [http://godort.libguides.com/c.php?g=592705&p=4098827#s-lg-box-wrapper-15053324 State Agency Databases Subject Guides.]

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An archive of [http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php?title=Historical_Media_Databases&oldid=22577 this page is available] but will not be updated.

**[http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov Arizona Memory Project] - Photographs, documents, artifacts and more available from a [http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/index.php#2 number] of AZ cultural institutions. Searchable by keyword with limit to a specific collection. A RSS feed of newly added items is available.

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*California

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**[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ Online Archive of California]- The OAC brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available. Administered by the University of California.

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*Colorado

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**[http://www.cdpheritage.org/collection/heritagewest.html Heritage West] - The Collaborative Digitization Program explains their database this way: "Heritage is a database that brings to the people of Colorado the special collections and unique resources of Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries and museums in digital format. You can access photos, textual materials, artifacts, costumes, diaries, oral history transcripts, manuscripts, and a host of other materials on Colorado's cultural, scientific and historical heritage."

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*Florida

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**Florida Memory Project

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***[http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/CallBrevardPapers/ Call Family & Brevard Family Papers] "contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of Richard Keith Call and his family, 1788-1916, and Theodore Washington Brevard and Mary Call Brevard and their family, 1820-ca. 1920s."

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***[http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/ Florida Photographic Collection & Video Clips] - "Featuring over 135,000 digitized photographs from the State Archives of Florida, the Florida Photographic Collection is the most complete online portrait of Florida available--one that draws its strength from family pictures, the homes of Floridians, their work, and their pastimes."

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*Georgia

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**[http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vanga/html/vanga_homeframe_default.html Digital Library of Georgia] "is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. The Digital Library of Georgia connects users to 500,000 digital objects in 90 collections from 60 institutions and 100 government agencies.

*** County Records from Microfilm - includes marriage records and early tax records from some counties

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*** District Plats of Survey - original surveys of land districts in counties made prior to distribution of land by lottery, 1805-1833, plus resurveys or renewed surveys of districts

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*** Georgia Death Certificates, 1919-1927 - also includes a number of certificates from 1914-1918, with the bulk dating from from 1917 and 1918

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*** Georgia Power Photograph Collection - photographs of lighting installations for businesses by Georgia Power - shows the interiors and exteriors of many businesses in Georgia in the 1930s and 1940s and a few outside the state

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***Headright and Bounty Plats of Survey, 1783-1909

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***Historic Postcard Collection - from the early 1900s through the 1970s depicting many historical buildings and landmarks throughout the state

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*Indiana

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**[http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm4/search.php Digital Image Library] - Searchable by keyword and limited by collection, this site provides a number of digital resources including various Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, information and images about poet James Whitcomb Riley, prominent African-American businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker, art from 19th century artist Karl Bodmer, letters from Ben Hur author Lew Wallace during his service as New Mexico's territorial governor, and many other resources.

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*Kentucky

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**[http://205.204.134.47/civil_rights_mvt/ Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Online Digital Media Database] - A comprehensive collection of audio and video interviews and over 10,000 pages of electronic transcripts. All material is full-text searchable and can be sorted by county, subject or by decade.

***[https://www.maine.gov/online/archives/ Interactive Search] - Searchable database of records available in the Maine State Archives in the following collections:

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Photographs, Maps, Movies, Newspapers.

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*Michigan

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**[http://mel.org/index.php?P=SPT--BrowseResourcesMichigana&ParentId=687 Mel Michigania] - Digitized historical resources from various collections around Michigan. The collections include photographs of people, places and objects; diaries of Civil War soldiers; unique local histories and much more.

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*Minnesota

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**[http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/ Visual Resources Database] - Nearly 130,000 images of photographs, artwork, posters, and fine art photographs from pre-territorial days to the present. Information on use and purchase available with each record.

**[http://photos.salemhistory.net/ Oregon Historic Photograph Collections] - This database includes over 10,000 viewable photographs and related descriptions from the holdings of the Salem Public Library, the Oregon State Archives, and the Marion County Historical Society. The images date from the mid-1800s to the 1990s and depict a wide range of subjects such as Oregon towns, homes, businesses, occupations, scenic vistas, disasters, festivities, and recreational pursuits. The database is searchable by keyword and is maintained by the Salem Public Library.

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*South Carolina

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**[http://www.dhec.sc.gov/administration/history/ History of Public Health]. The Website includes the text,photographs, references and timeline of a presentation on the history of public health in South Carolina, done by a longtime DHEC staff person.

**[http://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/ Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA)] - a program of the State Library and Archives to create a digital repository of Tennessee history and culture. TeVA provides a searchable array of historical records, photographs, documents, maps, postcards, film, audio and other original materials of enduring value.

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*Texas

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**[http://www.texasheritageonline.org Texas Heritage Online] - Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers. It has been developed by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative, a cooperative project to identify, describe, digitize, preserve, and make broadly accessible special collections of history and culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other institutions in Texas.

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*Utah

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**[http://mwdl.org/ Mountain West Digital Library] - From the website, "The Mountain West Digital Library is an aggregation of digital collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. Hosting institutions each run servers supporting their own digital collections and support partner institutions by providing scanning and hosting services. The Mountain West defines the region of contributors, but the content extends beyond the Mountain West and into different fields." Portal page hosted by University of Utah.

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*Washington

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**[http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/ Washington History] - includes historical records search, Classics in Washington History, a territorial history timeline, and maps, photographs, and documents from different periods in the state's history.

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**[http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/default.aspx Digital Archives] - records from both State and Local agencies that have permanent legal, fiscal or historical value. The collection includes vital statistics, census, military, land, naturalization, and other types of records in addition to photographic collections.

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*Wyoming

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**[http://wyomingmemory.org/ Wyoming Memory Portal] - Wyoming Memory brings the histories of Wyoming to life through a virtual gateway to the state's rich collections of manuscripts, books, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. These sources document Wyoming's past from prehistory through the present.

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**[http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu:8180/luna/servlet/ University of Wyoming American Heritage Center] - This website showcases the online multimedia collections of the University of Wyoming Libraries and the American Heritage Center.